Blessed Redeemer - Hymn Lyrics

1 Up Calv'ry's mountain one dreadful morn
Walked Christ, my Savior, weary and worn;
Facing for sinners death on the cross,
That He might save them from endless loss.

Chorus:
Blessed Redeemer! Precious Redeemer!
Seems now I see Him on Calvary's tree;
Wounded and bleeding, for sinners pleading—
Blind and unheeding— dying for me!

2 "Father, forgive them!" thus did He pray,
E'en while His lifeblood flowed fast away;
Praying for sinners while in such woe–
No one but Jesus ever loved so. 

3 O how I love Him, Savior and Friend,
How can my praises ever find end?
Thro' years unnumbered on heaven's shore,
My tongue shall praise Him forevermore. 

Avis B. Christiansen

Avis Burgeson Christiansen

Short Name: Avis B. Christiansen
Full Name: Christiansen, Avis B., 1895-1985
Birth Year: 1895
Death Year: 1985

Avis Marguerite Burgeson was born in 1895 and spent her entire life in Chicago. She was a member of the Moody Church, which was pastored for many years by Dr. Harry Ironside. In 1917, she married Ernest Christiansen, who would later become a vice president at Moody Bible Institute. Known for her modest and private nature, she occasionally wrote under pen names such as Avis Burgeson, Christian B. Anson, and Constance B. Reid. Avis began writing poems in her childhood, and by the time of her passing in 1985, she had written thousands of them.